Author of books:Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare (1971, sociology, with Richard Cloward)The Politics of Turmoil: Essays on Poverty, Race and the Urban Crisis (1974, sociology, with Richard Cloward)Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail (1977, sociology, with Richard Cloward)The New Class War: Reagan's Attack on the Welfare State and Its Consequences (1982, sociology, with Richard Cloward)The Mean Season (1987, sociology, with Richard Cloward)Why Americans Don't Vote (1988, sociology, with Richard Cloward)The Breaking of the American Social Compact (1997, sociology, with Richard Cloward)The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism (2004)Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America (2006)Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the Demobilization of American Voters (2009)